Alejandro
Alejandro was given to 1,842 boys in 2025, #195 among boys’ names; 147,470 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 140,000 Americans named Alejandro and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alejandro by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alejandro mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alejandro is “a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Alexander.” Its etymology gives the sense “defender of man” (literally).
Borrowed from Spanish Alejandro, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros, literally “defender of man”), an epithet of the goddess Hera. Doublet of Alexander.
/ˌæləˈhɑndɹoʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alejandro?
#195 among boys’ names, 2025
Alejandro fell from #180 in 2015 to #195 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.2 to 1.1 per 1,000.
4,577 babies in 2001, the peak
Alejandro peaked in 2001, when 4,577 babies were given it (4,557 boys, #88 among boys’ names). The 1,842 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,842 | #195 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 1,993 | #186 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 1,837 | #200 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,966 | #194 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 1,844 | #206 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 1,792 | #212 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1,972 | #201 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 1,902 | #208 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 2,032 | #195 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 2,208 | #181 | 1.2 |
Every recorded year (128)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,316 | #180 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 2,602 | #158 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 2,469 | #165 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 2,729 | #148 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 3,091 | #130 | 1.6 |
| 2010 | 3,712 | #103 | 1.9 |
| 2009 | 3,444 | #121 | 1.7 |
| 2008 | 4,168 | #105 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 4,281 | #103 | 2.1 |
| 2006 | 4,551 | #96 | 2.2 |
| 2005 | 4,482 | #97 | 2.2 |
| 2004 | 4,451 | #99 | 2.2 |
| 2003 | 4,317 | #100 | 2.2 |
| 2002 | 4,356 | #92 | 2.2 |
| 2001 | 4,557 | #88 | 2.3 |
| 2000 | 4,511 | #89 | 2.3 |
| 1999 | 4,319 | #88 | 2.2 |
| 1998 | 4,044 | #95 | 2.1 |
| 1997 | 3,998 | #99 | 2.1 |
| 1996 | 3,676 | #107 | 1.9 |
| 1995 | 3,531 | #107 | 1.9 |
| 1994 | 3,469 | #105 | 1.8 |
| 1993 | 3,535 | #103 | 1.8 |
| 1992 | 3,176 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 1991 | 2,787 | #118 | 1.4 |
| 1990 | 2,643 | #125 | 1.3 |
| 1989 | 2,086 | #148 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 1,607 | #176 | 0.84 |
| 1987 | 1,586 | #173 | 0.85 |
| 1986 | 1,633 | #165 | 0.89 |
| 1985 | 1,459 | #179 | 0.79 |
| 1984 | 1,320 | #190 | 0.73 |
| 1983 | 1,334 | #187 | 0.74 |
| 1982 | 1,499 | #173 | 0.83 |
| 1981 | 1,488 | #168 | 0.83 |
| 1980 | 1,304 | #187 | 0.73 |
| 1979 | 1,241 | #197 | 0.72 |
| 1978 | 1,107 | #202 | 0.67 |
| 1977 | 1,082 | #206 | 0.66 |
| 1976 | 1,076 | #203 | 0.69 |
| 1975 | 1,025 | #210 | 0.66 |
| 1974 | 870 | #237 | 0.55 |
| 1973 | 763 | #257 | 0.49 |
| 1972 | 702 | #276 | 0.43 |
| 1971 | 681 | #292 | 0.39 |
| 1970 | 587 | #326 | 0.32 |
| 1969 | 516 | #348 | 0.29 |
| 1968 | 421 | #379 | 0.24 |
| 1967 | 310 | #431 | 0.18 |
| 1966 | 313 | #431 | 0.18 |
| 1965 | 282 | #464 | 0.15 |
| 1964 | 300 | #458 | 0.15 |
| 1963 | 262 | #494 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 247 | #505 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 247 | #506 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 201 | #557 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 211 | #539 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 205 | #536 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 211 | #533 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 178 | #566 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 154 | #591 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 161 | #581 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 152 | #582 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 175 | #528 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 149 | #561 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 117 | #641 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 117 | #632 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 134 | #575 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 116 | #638 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 105 | #626 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 86 | #650 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 94 | #633 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 69 | #787 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 60 | #839 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 72 | #729 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 85 | #653 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 64 | #754 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 61 | #785 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 74 | #697 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 62 | #774 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 81 | #662 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 78 | #691 | 0.08 |
| 1933 | 81 | #642 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 83 | #669 | 0.08 |
| 1931 | 89 | #629 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 102 | #605 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 83 | #675 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 79 | #714 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 88 | #690 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 67 | #803 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 87 | #690 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 58 | #917 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 70 | #791 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 63 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 70 | #814 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 67 | #817 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 41 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 42 | #1,003 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,221 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,440 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,748 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,315 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 11 | #896 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,023 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,093 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,002 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 8 | #877 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 8 | #847 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,013 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,059 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,165 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 5 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 5 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 5 | #939 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alejandro a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alejandro has been given almost only to boys: 846 girls in 128 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alejandro: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alejandro, and how old are they?
140,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 147,470 Americans ever recorded as Alejandro. The median Alejandro alive today is 25 years old; half are between 16 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 180,051 people named Alejandro (837 women and girls, 179,214 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 131,062 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 265 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,370 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 35,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 64,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 26,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alejandro born?
The states with the most babies named Alejandro are Texas, California and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 471 | #84 | 2.4× |
| California | 361 | #111 | 2.6× |
| Florida | 154 | #141 | 1.4× |
| Arizona | 98 | #79 | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 61 | #191 | 1.2× |
| New York | 60 | #307 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 50 | #247 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 42 | #293 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 38 | #181 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 34 | #232 | 0.8× |
Where Alejandro is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alejandro is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alejandro with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alejandro
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alejandro and names like it
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- The most given names of the 2000sAlejandro peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alejandro since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Alejandro: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Alejandro.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alejandro alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.